Dr. Keith Gåddie
EDUCATION
University of Georgia
Ph.D. in Political Science
University of Georgia
M.A. in Political Science
Florida State University
Bachelor of Science in Political Science and History
Contact
Curriculum Vitae
About
Keith Gåddie is interim Associate Dean of the Gibbs College and Executive Faculty Fellow of the University. He is also President’s Associates Presidential Professor of Architecture. Together with Kim Gaddie and Kirby Goidel of Texas A&M, he edits Social Science Quarterly.
Keith studies the built environment and democratic values. His most recent book, Democracy’s Meanings: How the Public Understands Democracy and Why It Matters (2022, Michigan) with Nick Davis and Kirby Goidel, looks into the question of how Americans conceive of democracy and tests the fragility and resilience of the American civic experiment. He and his research partner Jocelyn Evans’ book, The U.S. Supreme Court’s Democratic Spaces (2021, OU Press) explores the evolution of the Supreme Court’s physical spaces, its institutional evolution, and its changing culture as a political and social organization. Keith’s next book, with fellow Gibbs College architecture professor Khosrow Bozorgi, is The Philadelphia House: Organic Architecture and Placemaking in Chestnut Hill (Rowman and Littlefield Press, July 2023.)
He has also authored or coauthored over 20 books and several journal articles, including the books Regulating Wetlands Protection (2000), Triumph of Voting Rights In the South (2009), Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act (2016), and The Three Governors Controversy: Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia’s Progressive Politics (2015).
Keith was previously professor and chair of political science, and headed Headington College at OU from 2017-2022. He has served on the environmental health science faculty of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (1992-1996). Keith has a visiting faculty relationship with Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, teaching ‘Architecture of Democracy.’
Professional Credentials
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (2018)
Tulane University School of Public Health, Freeport-McMoRan Environmental Science Postdoctoral Fellowship (1992-1994)
Qualified Expert Witness, for the 2d, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 11th Federal Circuit Courts
Amici accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019
American Institute of Architects Associate
Selected Publications
Nicholas T. Davis, Kirby Goidel, & Keith Gåddie (2022). How Americans Think About Democracy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Jocelyn J. Evans & Keith Gåddie (2021). The U.S. Supreme Court’s Democratic Spaces. Norman, OK: The University of Oklahoma Press.
Jocelyn Evans and Keith Gåddie (2021). The Systemic Affect of Culture, Power, and Terror in the Southern Public Space. Social Science Quarterly 102.
Keith Gåddie and Jocelyn Evans (2021). A Systems Approach to Understanding Community Power in the Debate Over Confederate Monuments Using Georgia as a Case Study. Social Science Quarterly 102.
Keith Gåddie (2021). Is the Redistricting Problem Math, Systems, or People? In Moon Duchin and Ari Nieh, eds., Political Geometry, Heidelberg (DE): Birkhauser.
Jocelyn Evans and Keith Gåddie (2020). The Affect of Memorializing the Loss, the Affect of Losing the Memorial: Confederate War Monuments in New Orleans. In Angela Person and Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas, eds. Affective Architectures, London: Taylor & Francis.
Kirby Goidel, Keith Gåddie, and Spencer Goidel (2019). Rigged Election Rhetoric: Coverage and Consequences. PS: Political Science & Politics 52 (21): 229-238.
Kirby Goidel, Keith Gåddie, and Marco Ehrl (2017). Watching the News and Support for Democracy: Why Media Systems Matters. Social Science Quarterly: Special Issue on Comparative Political Communication 98 (3): 836-855.
Awards
President’s Associates Presidential Professor (2015)
The University of Oklahoma Libraries ‘Library Partner Award’ for outstanding support and encouragement for the University Libraries mission and strategic initiatives (2017).
V. O. Key Jr. Book Award for the outstanding book on Southern Politics (2018) for The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
The Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council Award for “Research Using the Holdings of an Archives” for The Three Governors Controversy (2015).
V. O. Key Jr. Award for the outstanding book on Southern Politics for The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South, from the Southern Political Science Association (2011)
Julian J. Rothbaum Award for the outstanding book published by the University of Oklahoma Press, for The Triumph of Voting Rights in the South (2009)
Jewell Limar Prestage Award for the best paper on the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and political behavior, Southwestern Political Science Association (2003, 2021)
Featured Contracts, Grants, and Sponsored Research
Social Science Quarterly editorial contract ($950,000 total between 2010-2020, $97,000 for FY 2021, with Kirby Goidel of Texas A&M University)
OU Presidential Dream Course, “Explaining Modern America: Discovering the Great Depression & the New Deal,” ($25,000 course development award, 2015, with David Wrobel)
Co-Principal Investigator, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, Grant # HHM402-14-1-0007, 2014-2019 ($1,808,903 with James L. Regens)
Daily Oklahoman Poll, Co-Principal Investigator with Gary W. Copeland ($82,000/year 1999-2001)